The Dismemberment Plan

November 4, 2014  This week, heady D.C. post-punks the Dismemberment Plan are reissuing 2001's Change, their fourth and most aptly titled album, which was also their last full-length before going on a nearly decade-long hiatus. …Read on

December 20, 2013  SPIN already dubbed "dance/pop" — not dance-pop — the Trend of the Year, but now it's time we look at another major theme that hung over 2013: the comeback album.The last 12 months saw an alarmingly large number of long-dormant artists end their hibernation. …Read on

October 17, 2013  Despite the love songs, the tempered tempos, and the "You say 'cluster' / I say 'fuck'!" call-and-response joke, the Dismemberment Plan's first album in 12 years is not dad rock. Non-manchild rock, maybe. …Read on

October 15, 2013  The Dismemberment Plan's appealingly nonchalant reunion has received a video in the same wry spirit. Uncanney Valley, the brainy funk-punk-pop outfit's first album since 2001's Change, is out today on Partisan Records. The D-Plan first shared the LP's "Waiting," a spry, new-wavey number about the vicissitudes of romance, via a telephone number. …Read on

October 11, 2013  Though Washington, D.C. stalwarts the Dismemberment Plan are returning this month with Uncanney Valley, their first album in 12 years, the march of time means that no subsequent D-Plan album could feel as epochal as the turn-of-the-millennium one-two punch of 1999's Emergency & I and 2001's Change. …Read on

September 10, 2013  Of all the songs on the Dismemberment Plan's upcoming album Uncanney Valley, "Daddy Was a Real Good Dancer" is the smoothest ride. The D.C. luminaries are known for their squiggly keyboard squirts, fidgety guitar chords, and yelping vocals, but their newest single rolls along on a steady midtempo. …Read on

August 22, 2013  The Dismemberment Plan's music is nervy and spastic, which makes it the perfect setting for a song about the anxiety of moving to New York City. Singer Travis Morrison did just that just a few years ago, leaving the D.C. …Read on

July 15, 2013  The Dismemberment Plan bring a 12-year recording hiatus to a close on October 15 with Uncanney Valley, the D.C. math-pop band's first album since their excellent 2001 LP Change. Thus far we've had to divine their current direction from live leaks of demos-in-progress, but that ends now — if you dial the following number: 252-64-DPLAN. …Read on

June 26, 2013  The Dismemberment Plan will release their first album in 12 years this fall. On October 15, Partisan Records will issue Uncanney Valley, the Washington, D.C. foursome's follow-up to 2001's stellar Change.According to an official announcement, the DP recorded their fifth full-length with longtime collaborator J. Robbins in his Baltimore studio, Magpie Cage. Paul Q. …Read on